Drug smuggler to return to Britain after two years in Peruvian prison

Melissa Reid, who was arrested in 2013 for trying to smuggle more than £1m of cocaine into Spain, will be returning to the UK after meeting the conditions for deportation from PeruGetty Images

A British woman sentenced to more than six years in prison for drug trafficking will be deported to Britain, according to Peru’s judicial authority.

Judge Ana Zapata said that she had accepted an appeal lodged by Melissa Reid, 22.

Reid was jailed in 2013 for attempting to smuggle cocaine into Spain. She has served approximately one third of her sentence, having spent two years and three months in prison.

Judge Zapata said that Reid had fulfilled the requirements set for a first-time offender, including serving a third of her sentence, expressing remorse, working, showing good behaviour in prison, and paying approximately £2,000 in reparations to the state.

A statement published by the judge said that Peru’s National Migrant Agency, the British embassy in Lima and…

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